:: Practice Questions for Students :: 2004 Battle of the Books Middle School 6-8

1. QUESTION
In what book does a girl live at the Huddleson’s home?

TITLE, Adam and Eve and Pinch Me/ AUTHOR, Julie Johnson

2. QUESTION
In what book are the parents named Shirley and Manny?

TITLE, After the Rain/ AUTHOR, Norma Fox Maser

3. QUESTION
In what book does a dress rehearsal go so badly that a fire truck pulls up in front of the church?

TITLE, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever/ AUTHOR, Barbara Robinson

4. QUESTION
In what book does a sixteen-year-old boy become his father’s partner?

TITLE, The Black Pearl/ AUTHOR, Scott O’Dell

5. QUESTION
In what book does the main character say she is bitten by fleas and plagued by family?

TITLE, Catherine Called Birdy/ AUTHOR, Karen Cushman

6. QUESTION
In what book is a cat named Silas?

TITLE, Fever 1793/ AUTHOR, Laurie Haise Anderson

7. QUESTION
In what book are the chapters written alternately by two main characters?

TITLE, Flipped/ AUTHOR, Wendelin VanDraanen

8. QUESTION
In what book do Gram and Grim become his guardians after his mother dies?

TITLE, Freak the Mighty/ AUTHOR, Rodman Philbrick

9. QUESTION
In what book does a dog discover a human bone?

TITLE, Grab Hands and Run/ AUTHOR, Frances Temple

10. QUESTION
In what book is Camp Green Lake a camp for troubled boys?

TITLE, Holes/ AUTHOR, Louis Sachar

11. QUESTION
In what book are people not allowed to use the word—release?

TITLE, The Giver/ AUTHOR, Lois Lowry

12. QUESTION
In what book does a hungry bear come into a home looking for something he smells?

TITLE, Lyddie/ AUTHOR, Katherine Paterson

13. QUESTION
In what book is the head ruler of the land poisoned by his daughter?

TITLE, Mossflower/ AUTHOR, Brian Jacques

14. QUESTION
In what book does the main character have the same first and last name?

TITLE, No More Dead Dogs/ AUTHOR, Gordon Korman

15. QUESTION
In what book is Sandy Brown the principal’s daughter?

TITLE, Plain City/ AUTHOR, Virginia Hamilton

16. QUESTION
In what book did Vernie express her anger?

TITLE, Out of Nowhere/ AUTHOR, Ouida Sebestyen

17. QUESTION
In what book is a brother named Lester?

TITLE, Reluctantly Alice/ AUTHOR, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

18. QUESTION
In what book has a boy been taken care of by a manservant after his mother’s death?

TITLE, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen/ AUTHOR, Lloyd Alexander

19. QUESTION
In what book does the main character work for Gladstone Shoes in Chicago?

TITLE, Rules of the Road/ AUTHOR, Joan Bauer

20. QUESTION
In what book has a main character written a book called “The Cheater?”"

TITLE, The School Story/ AUTHOR, Andrew Clements

21. QUESTION
In what book does Dorothy Mately live in a British town called Ashover?

TITLE, Short and Shivery/ AUTHOR, Robert D. San Souci

22. QUESTION
In what book is the town called College Hill?

TITLE, Stepping on the Cracks/ AUTHOR, Mary Downing Hahn

23. QUESTION
In what book does Barton Bertelski start a ‘pimple’ wall in the boys’ bathroom?

TITLE, Thames Doesn’t Rhyme with James/ AUTHOR, Paula Danziger

24. QUESTION
In what book does Grandma Ola say that yellow is the first color she remembers?

TITLE, Toning the Sweep/AUTHOR, Angela Johnson

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